Box Score
NEW LONDON – First-year player Allegra Copeland (Beaumont, CA) had a match-high 12 kills with a .375 attack percentage to power the Eastern Connecticut State University women's volleyball team to its best attack percentage in over a month as the Warriors won their seventh straight with a three-set non-conference win over Mitchell College Friday night at the Yarnall Center. Set scores were 25-17, 25-16, 25-23.
 
The start after 17 matches for Eastern (14-3) is its best since 1998, when it began 16-1 to earn a No. 15 national ranking on the way to an NCAA tournament berth.
 
Eastern improved to 12-0 all-time vs. Mitchell (7-8), sweeping the Mariners for the tenth time.
 
Junior Haley Jo Bridges (Montebello, NY) added eight kills with a .545 attack percentage and sophomore Addison Soleau (East Lyme) added seven kills as the Warriors posted their third match with a hitting percentage of over .300 – their first since attacking a .400 in a three-set sweep of visiting Bay Path University Sept. 6.
 
Sophomore Ariah Davis (Raleigh, NC) had 21 assists and first-year player Sonya Nielsen (Waterford, WI) 13 while junior Brooke Praskievicz (Moodus) had  11 digs. Senior Liz Squier (Trevor, WI) had one dig to reach 500 in her career.
 
Eastern hosts 2024 Little East Conference regular-season champion Plymouth State University Oct. 18 at 2 p.m.